This is just a brief summary of what happened... My father had Laparoscopic surgery on 9/02 and passed away 9/17 of this year, he was only 56 years old. He was told he would be home that evening. After surgery the surgeon commented that he had really earned his money today, that it had been very hard and difficult to remove but he had gotten it out. He said they had placed a drain in his side because he had some left over bile and we were told that he would be kept overnight just as a precaution. Then the next day he was moved to CCU, they said just for observation puposes and that they may have to go back in on Friday (9/05) and see if their was a leak somewhere because he was draining way more bile than they anticipated. But as Friday approached they decided to wait until Monday, meanwhile my father is still draining large ammounts of bile and is not able to eat or drink anything oraly or by tube or IV. So Monday (9/08) they take him down to endo. to perform the procedure. But they had to stop midway through because they claim he was having trouble breathing due to his sleep apnea, to which was already known to doctors. So they rescheduled for Weds. (9/10), my father still is not able to drink or eatanything and still draining alot of bile. At this point he has started hallucinating and having very paranoid thoughts and ideas. We thought it was the pain medicine, which could be but I have since read of a similar case where patient began to have same effects ...(see link.Wednesday procedure was finaly done and we were told it was a success and leak was found and repaired, that he would stop draining bile. But he did not... and we were continually told he was doing better and he was moved to a progressive ward and finally allowed to try to eat... which made him vomit up blood. His White blood cell count was high. They said he may need a blood transfusion. He continued to drain large ammounts of bile and have trouble eating and wbc continued to rise. He finally had a bowel movement on 9/16, which looked like bile. He had a blood transfusion on 9/17 at about noon and was scheduled for another later that day. He was sent back to his room were at about 3:00 they said he was in respirtory distress and he was transfered back to CCU, he coded a few minutes after arriving their. And they could not bring him back. They said his heart was beating fine but there was no blood to pump. That he had a blood leak somewhere internally and were not sure where. We have had an autopsy performed and recieved preliminary results stating the main cause to be A G.I bleed and Diverticulitis and pancreatis as secondary contributing factors. I believe the surgeon has made a terrible mistake when performing original Surgery and cut or injured my father causing the bile leak which in turn poisoned my fathers organs. Is this a Wrongful death or Malpractice issue?